Labour has been “almost invisible” in the EU referendum campaign according to research from Loughborough academics June 6, 2016 The Labour Party is “almost invisible” in TV and print coverage of the EU referendum campaign, according to academics, with Jeremy Corbyn's refusal to appear alongside the Prime Minister one of the reasons to blame. A study from Loughborough University found that Labour representatives appear in less than four per cent of TV coverage, and eight per [...]
Labour leadership crisis worsens as peace talks collapse July 9, 2016 Labour party turmoil deepened today after deputy leader Tom Watson called off talks aimed at striking a compromise deal between Jeremy Corbyn and party rebels. The move will likely pave the way for former shadow business secretary Angela Eagle and Pontypridd MP Owen Smith to launch leadership bids. Read more: Labour's Owen Smith delays decision on leadership challenge Corbyn has [...]
MPs have blasted Twitter over failure to tackle anti-Semitism October 16, 2016 Twitter has incurred the ire of a group of MPs who have accuse it of not doing enough to stop the "pernicious problem" of anti-Semitic hate speech. The struggling social network was singled out by MPs on the home affairs select committee as acting as "an inert host for vast swathes of anti-Semitic hate speech and [...]
New polling figures have illustrated exactly why a split could be an electoral disaster for Labour August 3, 2016 New figures from YouGov have lain bare the dangers of a party split for Labour, with just over six weeks left in its leadership contest. Labour will choose between incumbent Jeremy Corbyn and challenger Owen Smith on September 24, but speculation has been rife that the party could split if Corbyn remains as leader. Labour [...]
Trump and Corbyn are pushing extreme views August 16, 2016 Surveys constantly reveal that a worrying number of Americans believe some absurd untruths, and crackpot conspiracy theories, about their outgoing President, Barack Obama. A poll last year, for example, found that 29 per cent think Obama is a muslim. A respected survey a few years prior put the number at 18 per cent. Republican candidate Donald [...]
Labour party conference 2015: How Jeremy Corbyn will impact market sentiment September 30, 2015 The election of Jeremy Corbyn as the new Labour leader was one of the biggest surprises in the UK political arena in recent memory. It signalled a shift to the left that hasn’t been seen in a major opposition party in 30 years. In his keynote speech at the Labour Party conference in Brighton [...]
Labour donor: Jeremy Corbyn can’t ignore business September 13, 2015 A top Labour donor has warned that Jeremy Corbyn must improve his relationship with the private sector if he is going to return his party to government. “If there is going to be a Labour government, it is going to be on the basis of support from both business and middle England,” John Mills, [...]
Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour conference speech used passages rejected by Ed Miliband and Neil Kinnock October 6, 2015 Jeremy Corbyn’s first major speech as Labour leader included old passages first written in the 1980s and offered to every party leader from Neil Kinnock to Ed Miliband. Corbyn, a veteran MP who has called for a “new politics”, told conference delegates in an hour-long speech in Brighton yesterday that people with “property and [...]
Conservatives climb to 16 point lead in latest poll July 26, 2016 The Conservatives have taken a 16 point lead over Labour in a new poll just 13 days after Theresa May became Prime Minister. A poll by ICM has found that the Conservatives have climbed by four percentage points to 43 per cent, against Labour's two percentage point fall to 27 per cent. Read more: Conservative [...]
The Conservatives are shifting to the left to destroy Corbyn’s Labour September 29, 2016 The Labour Party is in rapid decline. Now Jeremy Corbyn has been confirmed as Labour’s alternative Prime Minister at the next election – and with far-left activists in apparent ownership of the party – it is hard to see anything other than internal resignations, defections and desertions. The party as we know it looks to [...]